Districts Try to Increase the Number of Male Elementary School Teachers

I saw that story too and was encouraged by it, and that the story made the network news. Every little bit helps.

I once taught an intro science course at a community college for 5 years. Most the students were there to fulfill their (minimal) science requirements. On the first day, just to fill some time, I'd hand out a one-page optional and anonymous questionnaire just to get an idea of who was taking the class and why. While it was anonymous by name, you'd get obvious clues as to the sex of the student from their hand-writing or what they'd say about themselves. The proportion of women who said they were hoping to go into elementary education was astounding, and I can't recall more than one or two males over those ten semesters saying that was their educational objective. All those male teachers must be going through four-year institutions, because I would have guessed 5% or less of teachers were male.

* MB

The article mentions the gender gap across the whole of the public school system which would include elementary, junior and senior high school and community colleges. The huge majority of male teachers tend to flock towards high schools and higher education.

There are dozens of reasons for this.

- Society does not generally approve of males being the primary care giver of young children (We're MRAs we know all about this one already)
- Males trend toward higher earning jobs because they have almost no options available to them when it comes to supporting themselves, attracting a mate and supporting their families. Male are still pushed to be the bread winners. Men need to earn money, they don't have another option.
- False accusations are REAL, they happen every day. Male teachers and care givers are extremely susceptible targets to this. Upset a princess and kiss your career, your future earning potential, and life goodbye
- Men like structure and discipline and the feminized school system is not only toxic to boys stuck in it but also toxic to men who would like to peruse careers in teaching
- and the list goes on....

There are just as many factors that need to change to get equality in the sexes when it comes to teaching and caring jobs as has already changed to Rocket females to CEO positions at leading US companies in spite of the fact that many simply have not been in the game long enough to know how to run a major company - Carly Fiorina (and her female successor at HP) comes to mind...
I'm not saying a woman can't be CEO, I'm just saying that the average number of years service a male puts into his business career is 25 years on the job before making CEO. The truth is women have not even been climbing the ranks for that long yet and have been fast tracked to the top to the determent of some of the companies they've been vaulted into leadership of.

The problem with male teachers is going to take not only HUGE changes but also time to ensure that it goes right instead of making hte same mistakes we've made with vaulting women into CEO positions before they were ready.

Not only has elementary and HS teaching become a feminized career "ghetto..."

85% of all teachers that a boy will encounter are female during his formative K-12 years of schooling.

Worse, these females will be the bottom feeders of the college system --- mostly (with a few exceptions -- young women who are looking for an easy career, a marriage, a nine-month work year, a comfortable female-dominated workplace.

Boys are facing a psychological WAR in school these days, and the feminist control of who gets hired makes it impossible for male teachers to contest the ground...

Well, all our illustrious CongressMEN continue to sell us out.